Windmill



(ModeL) A. W. HAAG.

Windmill. N r 233,237. Patented Oct. 12, I880.

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ATTORNEYS.

MPEFERS, PNOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. W\SHING'TON. D C- UNITED STATES Fries,

PATENT WINDMILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,237, dated October12, 1880.

Application filed July 26, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM W. HAAG, of Fleetwood, in the county of Berksand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Windmill, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved device wherebythe wind-wheel may be thrown from a vertical to a horizontal position.

The invention consistsin journalingthe horizontal axle of the wheel in abox that swings on trunnions and is adjustable in avertical plane; and,further, in a peculiar coupling device for connecting the wheel-axlewith the pump-rod.

Figure 1 is a partly sectional vertical elevation of the device appliedto a windmill. Fig. 2 is a partly sectional plan of the same. Fig. 3 isan enlarged partly sectional elevation of portions of the device,showing the wind-wheel in a horizontal position. Fig. 4 is an enlargedelevation of the face of the male part of the coupling. Fig. 5 is anenlarged elevation of the face of the female part of the coupling. Fig.6 is an enlarged elevation, showing the engagement of the two parts ofthe coupling. Fig.7 is a transverse section on line mm, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the standards or supporting-frame, and Bthe platform extending laterally-about the frame A.

O is the thimble, fastened by bolts a in the top of the frame A. and Drepresents the headblock, supported in position by the entrance of itshollow shank b vertically into the said thimble O. Said head-blockD isherein shown as being made in two parts united by bolts 0 0, but I donot confine myself to this style of construction.

In the upper and forward angle of the headblock D a swingingjournal-box, E, is pivoted on the transverse pins or trunnions d d, sothat it-the said box E-may freely move in a vertical plane, thehead-block D being shaped and designed to permit such movement.

The box E holds the horizontal axle F of the wind-wheel G, which is heldbetween acollar, f, and a terminal nut, g,-on said axle F. This axle Fextends rearward and has on that end,

close to the rear end of the box E, the male part H of the coupling H,which part H consists of a disk of metal having a diamondshaped lug, h,projecting centrally from its rear face.

In the upward-projecting lug It of the headblock D the horizontal shaftI is journaled, and carries on its forward end the female part H of thecoupling H, which part consists of a disk of metal havin ganirregular-shaped depression, l, for the reception of the lug h of thepart H of the coupling, so that when the parts are coupled together andthe wind-wheel G in operation the lug h is engaged in the depression l,as shown in Fig. 6,,the straight edge of the lug h bearin g on eitherside against the straight shoulders I of the opposite part, H of thecoupling, while the depression 1 is of such shape and dimensions as topermit a ready uncoupling of the parts H when the wheel G is in motion.On the rear end of this shaft I is keyed an eccentric, K on whoseprojecting pin m is suspended t e rod K, that passes down through thethimble O and serves as a pump-rod or to transmit motion to othermechanism.

In the rearmost upper projecting lug, n, of the head-block D is fixedthe rearward-projecting horizontal staff L.

On {the projecting end of the trunnion d the crank M is firmly fastened,and to either arm of said crank M a wire, N N, is made fast and passeddown through the orifice o in the headblock D and through the thimble 0,within reach of the operator.

When the couplingHis in the position shown in Fig. 6-with thediamond-shaped lug h in a vertical position-a pull on the wire N, thatis fast to the upper arm of the crank M, will turn the journal-box E onits trunnions d d, and thereby raise the wind-wheel G to the horizontalposition shown in Fig. 3, thus spilling the wind out of its sails anddisconnecting said wheel G from the rod K, and thereby stopping itsfurther movement and when it is desired to put the mill in operationagain a pull on the wire N will bring the wheel G to its primaryvertical position and the parts H H again coupled.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A wind-wheel constructed substantially as hereinshown and described, consisting of standard A,head-block D, pivotedjournal-box E, trunnions d d, axle F, carrying wind-wheel 5 G, and partH of coupling H, shaft I, carrying part H" of coupling II, and eccentricK, provided with pin m, rod K, crank M, and wires N N, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the wind-wheel G 10 and shaft I, of thehead-block D, axle F, pivoted box E, coupling I1, trunnions d d, andcrank M, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby the saidwheel may be addescribed.

ADAM W. HAAG.

Witnesses:

J NO. H. KINTZER, LEVI BENNTHUSE.

